Clothes-drier.



L. DUNCAN. CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLIOATION FILED 8BPT.6,1907.

904,319. Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

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WITNESSES INVEN r02 (5 R o/ ww Ieand22-fim-mL L. DUNCAN.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED BEPT.6,1907.

904,319, r Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

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WITNESSES INVENTOH W ATTORNEYS LEANDER DUNCAN, or BUTTE, MONTANA.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Applicatiomfllad September 6, 1907. Serial No. 891,618.

Patented. a... 17, 100B.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEANDER DUNCAN, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Butte, in the county of Silverbow and- State of Montana, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Drier, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

I erect in or out of doors,

This invention relates to clothes or other fabric driers, of a class wherein a base, a mast thereon, and a drier frame mounted on the mast, are employed for exposure of the fabric to the open air and sun to same.

The object of the invention is, to provide a drier of. the class indicated, embodying novel details that adapt it for convenient service, render it light, strong, durable and easy to and permit parts thereof to be closely folded into a compact package when not in use.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claim.

Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings formin a part of this specification, in which simi ar characters of referdry the once indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improved, drier erected for use; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional side view of the upper portion of the drier frame; .Fig. 4 is a sectional side view of the base portion of the drier; and Fig. 5,

is a perspective view of a carrier frame that is a novel detail of the drier frame.

A feature of the improvement consists in the particular construction of the base of the drier, which embodies the following details. a A tubular post 10, is formed with a step box 10- at its lower end and a cap piece 10'.

having a central circular openlng therein, preferably of less diameter than that of the post, is mounted upon the upper end of the latter.. Preferably the parts 10 and 10 are cast from metal. Upon the post 10, between its ends a bracket ring 11, is mounted and secured, said ring having three pairs of ears a, projected therefrom at equal distances apart. A similar bracket ring 12 is secured upon the upper end of the post 10, havin three pairs of cars a formed thereon an each pair being positioned directly above a pair of ears a. Three similar legs 13 are respectively pivoted at their upper ends between a pair of the ears a and project downward, having somewhat greater length than the post 10. In each pair of ears (1, one end of a brace bar-14 is pivoted, said bars having an equal length. At suitable points between their ends, each leg 13 is longitudinally slotted, and in said slots a the outer ends of the brace bars 14, are res ectively pivoted.

It will be seenfrom the oregoing description that'the' legs 13, may be spread apart an equal distance from the post 10, that is defined by the length of the brace bars 1%, or if desired the legs and brace bars ma be together folded toward the lower end 0 the 0st, and thus adapt the structure for close olded adjustment. A mast 15, preferably in the form of a metal tube, fits loosely in the cap piece 10 of the post 10,.and extends down through the latter, at the lower end thereof seating in the-step box 10 as shown in Fig 4, whereby the mast is supported in supporting frame, comprises two preferably fiat cast metal rectangu ar blocks 16, 17 that are spaced apart an firmly connected together by four stretcher rods '18, that are respectively aflixed at their ends in the blocks near corresponding corners thereof, as is clearly shown in F 1g. 5. From each peripheral wall of the four sided block 16, which is the lowermost one on the carrier frame, a pair of spaced hinge leaves 16 project radially, and between each pair of hinge leaves, one end of a spider arm 19 is pivoted. The four spider arms 19 are alike, and in service incline outward and upward from the carrier frame, their upward trend being produced by impingin the heel f of each arm against the lower e ge of the block 16, as is clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The spider arms 19 are further supported by four hookbars 20, one for each arm, said hookbars having one end of each'loosely secured to the upper frame block 17, by means of eye bolts 6 or the like, the hook member con the other end of each hookba'r bein hooked into an eyebolt or staple c that pro ect from the upper side of a corresponding arm 19.

The construction of the carrier frame shown and described, and means for supporting the spider arms 19 therefrom is advantageous, as it affords a very strong, light,

pin 6 below the carrier frame block 16, and

' clothes supporting line 22 is roven, the line the line 22, aiter first removing the keeper for hanging-the goodsthereon. The re 21 is now awn so 'as to raise the drier ame arms wlth the mast 15, and corrects a weak ness found in some devices for a similar pur-' straddle piece it that en ortmg the iframe whereon turned by the wind thatengages the fabric durable, connection for the spider pose. In the mast 15 at intervals a luralty of transverse perforations d are ormed,

into either of which-may be inserted a keeper obviousl when the pinis in position, the carrier ame will be su ported thereon.

In a transverse-slot g ormed in the mast upper end, a grooved pulle g is insertedand pivoted, said pulley a ordin' support for a small rope 21, that asses t on h the slot 9 above the pulley. e end oi e rope 21 is fumished with a hook k, that engages an eye formed on a rojec'ts from the upper side of the frame b ock 17, and from t e pulley g the remaining ortion of the rope 21' is extended downwar y to be convenient Upon the spider arms 19 at proper distances a art, rin eyes 5,01- the like are secured, an throug said .eyes' a being stretched taut, which completes the frame of the drier. 1 Y

i 0 place garments or other fabric, upon pin a the cord 21 is paid out by one holding the pendent portion thereof, so asv to 'lower v the .line stretched, which will permit free access to said lineon the mast 15, and the keeper. in e is by first folding the cure the-several h nge leaves placed in an ad acent perforation will afford support lock the latter upon tate-in the post 10 on the step 10, when.

whic 1 for the drier frame and the mast, which will rohung on the drier frame. The dried fabric may be readily removed from the drier frame if the latter is lowered as before explained, and other clothing. may be placed thereon if that is desired.

At any time the entire device may be dismantled and packed into a compact bundle spider arms upward on the carrier frame," and then removing the mast from said carrier frame and from the base 0st 10, the legsof which may then be folde ,so thatthe entire details of the apparatus may be readily placedv side by side and wrapped with the rope 21 which will searts in a compact package. 1 Having descri ed my invention, I claim as new and desire'to secure by Letters Patent:

In a device of a step box on the lower on of the said post,

- an annular cap piece on the top of the post,

a ring havinga plurality of radial. hinge leaves thereon a plurality of legs pivoted b one end 0 each betweenpairs of said hmge leaves, said legs having slotstherein,

a second ring on the post between its endsand having a pluralityof leaves projected radially therefrom, and brace bars pivoted one end of each between pairs of said and at op osite res ective slots in the egs. testimony whereof I ha e signed my name-to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEANDER DUNCAN, Witnesses j i B.""HINKLE,

a the character described, an 'expansible base, comprisin atubular post,

7o egds thereof in 

